Hi Paul, can you give me a call? I saw your pic of the Snorkasaurus 1. My name is Ronnie Mezich and I owned the Snorkasaurus III a 63 Dodge 330 lightweight. I have lots of pics of all 4 of Doyle Barnes cars. thanks 425 424 0453

Spotted this base model “Oldsmobile sucking on a Lemon” on the way home from my golf club.
Of course there are many similarities between the futility of my golf and the poor sales of the Edsel. (’58 Ranger 4dr)

In your travels, might you run across junk yards that have old stuff? I need hubcaps for a second series ’55 Chevy pickup, 3/4 ton. The 3/4 ton ’56s are the same. The 1/2 tons’, of which there are plenty, are smaller…..won’t work!

I have several pictures of this perfectly rusted 1950 Chevy that lives up the street from me. If you’d like feature them, or just see them, let me know. Also let me know what size in pixels you’d like them. Here is a sample:

You can post them to our CC Cohort Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1648121@N23/pool/ or if you’d like to write something about this truck, send the text and pictures (800 pixels max. width) to me at the contact form above. PN

I don’t know a lot about the truck or owner, but it lives just up the block from me. It is gone a lot so I know it is a daily driver. I rarely see anything so perfectly rusted without being rusted through (and is that lichen, mold, some kind of deep sea encrustation?) .

I know several guys who would like to achieve this effect on their rat-rods but I guess it’s difficult or expensive to do. I’m not a paint and body guy so I don’t know.

Anyway, since it kind of unique (and I love the business name) I wanted to share it with you and the gang.

Feng

PS Do you have an email where I can send more than one photo at a time? I don’t want post seven times here in the contact form … unless that’s ok with you.

Sorry. I didn’t mean to complain, I’m just having a rough day health-wise and every little thing is an effort and puts me in a foul mood. I do apologize. I added 7 photos of the 1950 rustbucket to the CC pool. It will be much easier next time as all the google, to yahoo, to flicker, to posting, to sharing account setting up is done.

The Targa Tour road rally of NZ finished in Hawkes bay today Ive shot some cars for the cohort page sorry about the lack of new Lamborghinis and Ferraris I dont have enough camera memory and I had to delete the modern stuff to fit the little Fiat Abarth and a nice Dodge Monaco parked outside

Got some photos for the cohort Paul from Southwards open day first time Ive seen a Cord in pieces or heard a supercharged Mercedes revved out or for that matter a 1896 Benz running and revved up my tired little Briggs and Statton sounds smooth compared and less smoke but talking with the guy who gets to play with the collection and drive them all worth the trip alone. Hope yall enjoy my photographic efforts.

Shot some cars again today told the owners if they were there where to find the photos most seemed quite interested in the site Paul so you may see more hits from NZ Met the owners of the yellow Cresta they were very happy to know about CC and asked if you allow comments

Since y’all ripped on the ’67 Thunderbird, why don’t you take a poke at my other classic car! My ’75 Pontiac Grand Am! Let’s see what JP can conjure up here! I am sure you will diss this one every bit as much as my other car! At least I can say I DON”T own “Belly Button Cars” ie. a Camara, A Chevelle, a Mustang a Corvette ad nauseum! Go for it my friend and I will see you in the reply section!

Well, John, if I come across one I would be delighted to write something on it. When I was in high school, my mother owned a 74 Luxury LeMans sedan. I have always considered it the best looking of all of the colonade sedans. Although the Pontiac 350 with the 2 barrel carb was better at sucking gas than it was at motivating the car, the car was actually a very good handling package. Don’t ask me how I know. 🙂

The great thing about CC is that all of the authors and contributors here call them how they see them. Any given car will hit different people different ways. A car that gives one guy nostalgic warm fuzzies will get another guy’s dander up. It looks like you have a really nice Pontiac there. Maybe you could even submit a “My Curbside Classic” for the rest of us to enjoy. Anyhow, we are glad to hear from you.

Thanks Timmm! Glad someone else here has some “taste” and intelligence! If I got another ’67-’69 Glamour Bird, I want a Triple Black ’69 Fordor! They look real sinister in all black! Remind me of the what the Green Hornet ‘should have’ driven LOL!

My Grand Am is the 400 but it is a four barrel and I ripped the Malaise Era exhaust off from the manifold back and installed a 3″ “X” Pipe system with Flowmasters! Topped off by a set of Trans Am Chrome splitters exiting behind each wheel. How she should have been built! I did run across a 1973 455 Sunroof Car a couple years ago. It was in decent shape- def worth restoring!

Thanks againg for the appreciation of something that isn’t another Camaro, Mustang or Corvette!

How do I contribute an article? I tried using the CONTACT INFO above but the word count is too short. I did a walk around “Curbside Classic Tour” of a 4 block area in my San Diego neighborhood. This Merc has been sitting on the street or in the alley for the last 12 years. I found several black plate cars. A nice mix of old cars.

From what I’ve read, a few of you seem to travel a lot and come across some rare vehicles. I’ve been looking for a particular truck for many, many years now and have not even come close to finding one. I believe they were made back in Ohio? in the early to mid 30’s. They were semi tractors and the name on them was Relay. The company also had one called the Continental I believe. Anyway, any information or pictures of the Relay would be great. The truck is pretty sharp looking but the really interesting thing about them is they had two engines and two transmissions. Can’t for the life of me imagine how they could work but apparently they, at least for a few years anyway. So all you motor vehicle nuts, help a guy out if you can. Thanks!

Discovering your site now. Wow… I could be part of your team especially for 80’s-90’s cars. Did collect up to 6000 car brochures in the past. It’s fun sometime to compare USA and Canadian specs for the same car. Feel free to ask. I could be your Canadian connection 🙂

Saw my mate with the White truck Paul but I cant find the article to add more useless information, what about a search facility?. Yes I have couple of photos somewhere I go there a lot he has a restored Fergusson 35 petrol he want me to paint and its diesel Ford cousin a Dexta and earlier fordsons and stationary engines and Hillmans and a boxcar of old fones he has some cool shit.
His White is a 1ton truck same as the equivalent car that year 4 banger but the radiator is isolated from the chassis in shock absorbers now hows that for a clever innovation way back when
Sorry to be a pest just thought a little site search thing coulda been an idea and I coulda put that where the brotherhood would see it.

Bryce, for god’s sake, use the frigging “Search by Google” which is on the upper right side of the page, just below the header. It’s been there since day 1. Just enter a few key words, and it will search all the CC files. It works like a charm; In use it all the time to find old articles.

Do you get your e-mail? I’ve written you several times, but you never respond. Bryce, you need a proper PC and step into the 21st Century.

Gunna go visiting on thursday I found that classic car hire company they have a showroom I’m sure I know one very cool car they hide in there, it used to belong to one of my daughters school friends grandad

Dear readers, can anyone give advice, I tried to submit my first review (MS Word formatted, with pics inserted) via contacs form. I have seen response “the file is too large”.
Zip / Rar archives were not supported too.
What way shoul I use else? Thanks in forward.

Well it appears the cohort is now toast impossible to login Yahoo has removed me again. shame i enjoyed finding and shooting classics, Have found a way in but my photostream has been removed from my access why?

Found another way in I replied to a comment on my photostream it must have upset flikka google account no longer can login they sent me an email stating so but then its been deleted along with all their other correspondence, crazy internet.

Just uploaded a bunch of photos to the Cohort of a 1988 BMW 325i E30 for this seeming BMW streak. The car has an interesting history, seeing as how it’s an Arizona car brought to West Virginia and registered with Ohio Plates. It’s an American-market convertible with fuel injection. Yes. Fuel injection. Anyways, the car’s in good shape for how old it is and would make a worthwhile CC.

Hi Paul,
If you ever need pictures I have tens of thousands of original images I’ve made that you are welcome to use. If you are interested let me know what kind cars or theme you are working on and I’ll see what I can find.
I would direct you to my site but its down for the time being, it was hacked bad and will take some time to repair.
Keep up the good work
Larry

It’s a Prevost LeMirage. Prevost is a Canadian manufacturer. The LeMirage came out in 1976 and was built for a very long time, until not that long ago. This one looks like it’s from the late 70s or 80s, but it’s hard to tell. Undoubtedly it came from NY, since it says “Buffalo” on the destination sign.

Paul and others,
Thanks again for Toyota Week. I enjoyed all of the entries!

I hope you’ll consider a Honda Week at some point in the future (I don’t think you’ve done one, have you?). While Toyota has a longer reputation in the US and in Japan of car and truck production, they established their reputation in the US by building very dependable but conventional RWD vehicles. In contrast, Honda seemed to go for the niche market of FWD small cars, and they were exceptionally innovative in their early years in the US. In some ways, Toyota’s recent innovations have surpassed Honda’s (especially in hybrid technologies), yet Honda remains an interesting case study in juxtaposition to Toyota.